New Riverside Casino Opens Tonight

RIVERSIDE - There are more than a thousand slot machines, roulette wheels, craps, and plenty of poker and black jack. The new Riverside Casino opens tonight, and has more to offer than just gambling.

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Thu, August 31st, 2006

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Interesting gambling information:

  • In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.
  • Many casinos in Nevada were financed by mobsters. Most notable perhaps was Las Vegas' Flamingo which was opened in 1947 by Bugsy Siegel.
  • Up to the 1960s, Nevada was plagued by teamster financing, hidden ownership, employment of individuals of questionable character and background, and the clear links to organized crime.
  • Keno, the casino version of lotto, originated in China nearly 2000 years ago when Cheung Heung devised a lottery as a way of raising funds for his province's army.